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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
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Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.
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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
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